Contact: karen.mccarthy@dominican.edu
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/karenmccarthyot/
Dr. Karen McCarthy completed her OTD in Occupational Therapy at USC in 2008, focusing on the development of the program Lifestyle Redesign® for the College Student. She spearheaded the creation of the first OT service in student disability services at University College Cork in Ireland, called Life. She started her position at Dominican University of California in fall of 2016, teaching Psychosocial Aspects of Occupation.
Karen’s clinical experience is in the areas of mental health, Lifestyle Redesign ®, dating coaching, and college student wellness. Her research interests include mental health and occupational science.
Keptner, K. M., & McCarthy, K. (2020). Mapping Occupational Therapy Practice with Postsecondary Students: A Scoping Review. The Open Journal of Occupational Therapy, 8(1), 1-17. https://doi.org/10.15453/2168-6408.1617
McCarthy, K., & McCarthy, M. (2019). Elevating Student Understanding: Irish Occupational Therapy Students’ Experience of a Service Learning Project. Journal of Occupational Therapy Education, 3 (3). https://doi.org/10.26681/jote.2019.030303. https://encompass.eku.edu/jote/vol3/iss3/3/
Goodwin, J., Behan, L., Kelly, P., McCarthy, K., & Horgan, A. (2016). Help-seeking behaviors and mental well-being of first year undergraduate university students. Psychiatry research, 246, 129-135.
O'Donoghue, I. & McCarthy, K. (2015). Perceptions of occupational therapy in mental health services: The views of six Irish psychiatric nurses. Irish Journal of Occupational Therapy, 43(1), 20-28.
Doherty, B. & McCarthy, K. (2015). Examining stigma as personally experienced by people with mental health Issues in Ireland. Irish Journal of Occupational Therapy, 43(1), 3-11.
McCarthy, K., MacRae, A., & Hattjar, B. (2019). Mental Health of Emerging Adults. In A. MacRae (Ed.), Cara and MacRae's Psychosocial Occupational Therapy: An Evolving Practice, Fourth Edition (pp. 201-214). Thorofare, NJ: Slack Incorporated.
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